Star territory: printing the universe in nineteenth-century America
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Beteilige Person: Fraser, Gordon 1981- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2021]
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Abstract:"The cosmic aspirations of present-day United States nationalists are not recent developments. Efforts to control and exploit the universe have deep roots in the nineteenth century. From John Adams to military explorer John C. Frémont to astronomer Maria Mitchell, officials and agents of the United States participated in a large-scale effort to map the new nation onto cosmic space, what Henry David Thoreau referred to as "star territory." Many nineteenth-century dissenters against an emerging regime of U.S. space power saw in the tools of astronomy, land surveying, and navigation a means of producing alternatives to that regime"--
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis Seite [199]-212. - Index
Umfang:221 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780812252927
0812252926